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Flood shading uses FEMA’s official symbology. Some mapped zones are unshaded. Use the selected-point result for the zone and subtype; do not interpret a blank map as a clean bill of health.
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What to verify before buying
A practical checklist
Ask about the building, not just the pin.
A street-address match is approximate. Check the building footprint, elevation, drainage, prior flooding, and current maps with the local floodplain office. Ask an insurer for a property-specific flood quote; a map is not an insurance determination.
Plan for insurance costs →Confirm the actual school assignment.
A district can contain several schools with different attendance areas. Contact the district with the exact address, child’s grade, and intended school year. Verify capacity, transfer rules, transportation, and any planned boundary changes.
Find the district’s contact information ↗Use reports as one piece of context.
Recorded incidents depend on reporting, classification, location quality, and publication schedules. A busy commercial area and a residential area are not directly comparable. Visit at different times and check the local police department’s current data.
Return to your home budget →Sources, coverage, and limits
Where the data comes from
This is a point-based screening tool, not a parcel survey, appraisal, insurance quote, school recommendation, or crime-rate ranking. It does not estimate resale value. Source access checked ; retrieval dates and data periods appear with results.
Flood zones · FEMA
The National Flood Hazard Layer supplies current effective digital map data where available. It does not cover every location digitally or model every kind of future flooding. Zone X has multiple meanings; we retain the subtype. Blank shading, Zone D, missing coverage, and a failed request are never treated as “no flood risk.”
FEMA map-service documentation ↗Districts · U.S. Census Bureau
Unified, secondary, and elementary districts use TIGERweb’s ACS 2026 release, with a January 1, 2026 boundary vintage. Outlines are simplified for display and only the districts containing the selected point are shown. These are administrative districts—not attendance zones, school locations, school quality ratings, or enrollment guarantees.
District layers and release metadata ↗Reported crime · limited city feeds
Adapters cover New York City and Chicago only, using official public records and a 1 km search radius where location quality permits. Counts cover a labeled 90-day period ending at a completed publication month or quarter—not necessarily the last 90 days. We check the share of source records with usable coordinates and suppress counts when it is too low.
Some offenses or protected locations are excluded or obscured by the source. These are mapped record counts, not unique victims, convictions, per-capita crime rates, or a prediction of personal safety. Do not rank cities using these totals.
NYC source ↗Chicago source ↗Addresses, ZIP codes & basemap
The Census geocoder estimates a location along a street-address range; it is not a rooftop or parcel locator. New construction and incomplete addresses may not match. You can select a map point or enter coordinates instead.
ZIP-only searches use an internal representative point from a 2020 Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA), with a January 1, 2020 vintage. ZIP+4 searches use only the first five digits. These generalized areas do not cover every valid ZIP code or track current USPS delivery boundaries. ZIP search moves the map to an approximate area; choose a property point before checking flood, school, or crime results. The locator marker does not show the area’s boundary or summarize the whole ZIP.
The USGS topographic basemap supplies roads, terrain, and geographic context; it is not a legal boundary survey.
Census geocoder documentation ↗Census ZIP-area source and vintage ↗ZIP-area coverage limitations ↗USGS National Map ↗Data providers can change, delay, or interrupt their services. A layer may be unavailable even when other results load. The map does not load Google Analytics or AdSense, and we do not keep a saved address-search history. Read the map privacy details or report a data problem.